Panel Discussion on COP26: Are we Negotiating the Non-Negotiable ?

Organizer: International Water Association India

About the Webinar

• Part of IWA India Webinar Series
• When: 06 November, 2021 (Saturday)
• Time: 6 p.m. onwards (Indian Standard Time)
• Free Registration
• Platform: Zoom

With the critical nexus between climate change, environment and degree of water availability, being increasingly realized, and with multitude of stakeholders involved in the domain of water and sanitation, it is important for us to discuss solutions like water reuse, efficient irrigation systems, resource recovery from wastewater and energy – efficient wastewater treatment, flood infrastructure for urban areas in the context of uncertainties. Extreme weather events and changes in climate are imposing severe stress not only on the physical infrastructure of water but also on the societies’ ability to cope with climate stress.

This is the context in which we need to take stock of what are being negotiated in the COP meetings and the much talked about expressions such as “net zero emission”, “phasing out of fossil fuel-based energy generation”, “limiting average temperature rise at well below 2.0”, “climate justice and differential climate responsibilities”, “global climate finance” and so on.

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Moderator: Professor S Mohan, Chair, IWA India and Institute Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Panelists:

• Dr. Dipak Gyawali, Former Minister of Water Resources, Government of Nepal and Currently, Director, Nepal Water Conservation Foundation
• Dr. S. Janakarajan, Former Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies and Currently, President, South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies, Hyderabad
• Dr. Giriraj Amarnath, Principal Researcher – Disaster Risk Management and Climate Resilience and Research Group Leader: Water Risks to Development and Resilience, International Water Management Institute, Colombo
• Dr. G. V. Subrahmanyam, Former Advisor, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, New Delhi
• Dr. Nagendran, Former Professor, Centre for Environmental Studies, Anna University and Former National Green Tribunal Expert Member

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